Midseason TV Preview: Winter and Spring 2017 Debuts

Need a roadmap for all the winter and spring TV premieres and midseason returns? IGN's got you covered.

While shows like Black Sails, Bates Motel, Grimm, The Leftovers and Girls wrap up their stories with final seasons, a splendid spread of new shows enter the picture - like Marvel's Iron Fist, FX's Legion and Taboo, Starz's American Gods, and The CW's Riverdale.

Meanwhile, The Walking Dead, Arrow, The Flash, Gotham, Lethal Weapon, Supergirl, and more resume their current seasons while The 100, iZombie, Colony, The Expanse, Homeland, Humans, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Baskets, and Sherlock return for brand new ones.

NOTE: Not every midseason show gets its own write up. For a longer list of shows/premiere dates from January through May, head to the final page.

The Mick

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Airs On: FOX

Premiere: 1/01/17

From the producers of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and starring Always Sunny's Kaitlin Olson (who also serves a producer), The Mick follows Mackenzie "Mickey" Murphy (Olson), a hard-living, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, CT to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who has fled the country to avoid a federal indictment.

Ransom

Airs On: CBS

Premiere: 1/01/17

Created by Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files, The Man in the High Castle), Canadian/US co-production Ransom follows Eric Beaumont (Black Sails' Luke Roberts), an experienced crisis and hostage negotiator, and his team, who solve kidnap and ransom cases with the most dangerous criminals in the world.

Sherlock

Airs On: PBS

Premiere: 1/01/17

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman return for a fourth series/season of Sherlock as our delightful detecting duo dare to take on an insidious posthumous plot hatched by Andrew Scott's Moriarty.

Here's what the Sherlock's creators told IGN about Season 4:

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Beyond

Airs On: Freeform

Premiere: 1/02/17

From Adam Nussdorf (TRON: Uprising) comes a new supernatural series centered on Holden Matthews (Burkely Duffield), a young man who wakes from a 12-year coma and discovers new abilities that propel him into the middle of a dangerous conspiracy.

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Star

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Airs On: FOX

Premiere: 1/04/17

With its pilot airing on December 14th, Lee Daniels' Star officially kicks off its first season on January 4th. A new musical drama set in Atlanta, Star features three young singers -- played by Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, and Brittany O'Grady -- all trying to break through, break out, and become famous. Queen Latifah, Benjamin Bratt and Nicholas Gonzalez co-star.

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Airs On: FXX

Premiere: 1/04/17

It's hard to anticipate just what sort of insanity The Gang will be up to as Always Sunny enters its twelfth season, but from the looks of the brief promo above, explosions, karate kicks, male stripping and waterslides are involved.

One Day at a Time

Airs On: Netflix

Premiere: 1/06/17

This reboot/reimagining of Norman Lear's classic single mom sitcom, One Day at a Time, follows a Cuban-American family led by a recently separated, former military mom (Queen of the South‘s Justina Machado) as she navigates a new single life while raising her daughter (Isabella Gomez) and son (Marcel Ruiz), with some help from her Cuban-born mom (Rita Moreno). And yes, there is a Schneider.

Grimm

Airs On: NBC

Premiere: 1/06/17

Grimm's sixth and final season lands right at the top of 2017, with 13 episodes that give us the endgame showdown of David Giuntoli's Nick versus Sasha Roiz's Capt. Renard, who's now the mayor elect of Portland. Can Nick protect the city and those closest to him?

Emerald City

Airs On: NBC

Premiere: 1/06/17

Based on the Land of Oz books by L. Frank Baum, Emerald City is a darker, edgier version of the story starring Person of Interest's Adria Arjona as Dorothy, a young woman transported to another world - a mystical land where an all-powerful ruler (Vincent D'Onofrio) governs over one kingdom. Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) directs.

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Sleepy Hollow

Airs On: FOX

Premiere: 1/06/17

With a bit of an in-series reboot, Sleepy Hollow's fourth season takes Ichabod to Washington D.C., where he'll get a new partner in Janina Gavankar's Diana (shown above) and assist a team of researchers. Nicole Beharie isn't the only one who has left the show, with Jessica Camacho, Lance Gross and Nikki Reed all out, while Rachel Melvin (Days of Our Lives), Jerry MacKinnon (Empire), Oona Yaffe (MasterChef Junior) and Jeremy Davies (Lost) join the series. John Noble is also expected to return for multiple episodes.

Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds & Carrie Fisher

Airs On: HBO

Premiere: 1/07/17

In light of the recent and unexpected deaths of both women, the documentary Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, originally set for March, has been moved up to Jan. 7th. The film chronicles two golden ages of American cinema through the life and intimate relationship of Carrie Fisher and her mother, Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds.

Taboo

Airs On: FX

Premiere: 1/10/17

Created by Tom Hardy (who also stars), his father Chips Hardy, and Steven Knight, Taboo is an eight-episode miniseries about an adventurer who returns to Britain from Africa, along with fourteen stolen diamonds, to seek vengeance after the death of his father. Oona Chaplin, Michael Kelly, and Jonathan Pryce co-star.

Workaholics

Airs On: Comedy Central

Premiere: 1/11/17

Season 7 of Comedy Central's Workaholics will be the the show's last as each of the stars -- Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, and Anders Holm -- are branching out and working on different projects. The Vampire Diaries' Nina Dobrev is set to guest star during the final run.

Sneaky Pete

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Airs On: Amazon

Premiere: 1/13/17

From Graham Yost (Justified) and executive producer Bryan Cranston comes the story of a con-man, Marius (Giovanni Ribisi), on the run from a vicious gangster (played by Cranston in a prominent recurring role). Marius hides by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, and takes cover with Pete's estranged family – a colorful group (headed by Margo Martindale) with well-guarded and dangerous secrets of their own.

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Airs On: Netflix

Premiere: 1/13/17

Based on the internationally best-selling series of books by Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) and starring Emmy and Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, A Series of Unfortunate Events recounts the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans -- Violet, Klaus, and Sunny -- whose evil guardian Count Olaf will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance.

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Homeland

Airs On: Showtime

Premiere: 1/15/17

Homeland's sixth season picks up several months after the previous season and finds Claire Danes' Carrie Mathison back in the United States, living in Brooklyn. Carrie now works at a foundation whose efforts are to provide aid to Muslims living in the United States. The entire season takes place between election day and the inauguration, during a strange, transitional time in the halls of government filled with anxiety and different competing interests.

The Young Pope

Airs On: HBO

Premiere: 1/15/17

This international co-production from Italian director Paolo Sorrentino stars Jude Law as the dangerously iconoclastic Pius XIII - the first American Pope in history. Diane Keaton, James Cromwell, and Sebastian Roché also star.

Six

Airs On: History

Premiere: 1/18/17

History's Six follows members of Navy SEAL Team Six as they put their differences aside to locate and rescue their former troop leader, Richard “RIP” Taggart (Justified's Walton Goggins), after he's captured by Nigeria's Boko Haram.

Baskets

Airs On: FX

Premiere: 1/19/17

Zach Galifianakis returns for a second helping of FX's Baskets -- co-created by Galifianakis, Louis C.K. and Jonathan Krisel -- as the offbeat comedy series now comes with an Emmy Award in tow thanks to Louie Anderson's win for his portrayal of Chip and Dale's mama.

Frontier

Airs On: Netflix

Premiere: 1/20/17

From San Andreas' Brad Peyton comes Frontier - a period drama set against the backdrop of 1700s Canada, starring Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones, Aquaman), that revolves around warring factions vying for control of the fur trade in a ruthless game of wealth and power.

Voltron Legendary Defender

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Airs On: Netflix

Premiere: 1/20/17

With a voice cast that includes Kimberly Brooks, Rhys Darby, Josh Keaton, Tyler Labine, Jeremy Shada, Bex Taylor-Klaus and Walking Dead's Steven Yeun, Voltron: Legendary Defender's second season will pick up right where Season 1 left off as the Paladins try to bring Voltron back together and finally defeat Zarkon in order to save the universe.

The Path

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Airs On: Hulu

Premiere: 1/25/17

The Path -- starring Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, and Hugh Dancy -- returns to Hulu for Season 2 as Paul's Eddie now finds himself on the outside of the Meyerist cult (ahem, "movement") and exiled from his family. But does Eddie have secret insight into the movement that might place him back in the crazy mix?

The Magicians

Airs On: Syfy

Premiere: 1/25/17

With Season 2 staying true to the Lev Grossman book series, The Magicians will focus on some of Quentin Coldwater's (Jason Ralph's) more unlikeable qualities -- specifically his selfishness with respect to Julia (Stella Maeve) -- as the team unites to face a powerful threat that could spell the death of magic in every world.

Riverdale

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Airs On: CW

Premiere: 1/26/17

From The Flash and Supergirl's Greg Berlanti and created by Afterlife With Archie comic writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Riverdale offers "a surprising and subversive take" on the iconic cast of characters from the Archie comics. Archie Andrews (K.J. Apa) is now a brooding, conflicted teen living in a town with its own murder mystery, as the new school year begins with everyone reeling from the recent, tragic death of high school golden boy Jason Blossom. Camila Mendes, Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse, Luke Perry, and Mädchen Amick also star.

Z: The Beginning of Everything

This Amazon period drama -- created by Tim Blake Nelson -- follows the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (Christina Ricci) as she meets unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gavin Stenhouse) and begins their long, storied relationship.

Black Sails

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Airs On: Starz

Premiere: 1/29/17

Black Sails' fourth and final season will see levels of violence escalate as Toby Stephens' Captain Flint wages an all out war against Luke Roberts' New Providence Governor Woodes Rogers using an army of pirates and former slaves. It's probably also safe to assume that Flint's buried treasure will cause a bit of a rift between him and Luke Arnold's John Silver... setting us up nicely for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, which takes place decades later.

Here's what Black Sails' cast and creators told us about the final season:

Black Sails: The Final Season Will Include Big Deaths and Treasure Island Set-Up - NYCC 2016

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Continue on for February TV debuts, including The 100, The Expanse, Bates Motel, Legion, and adaptations of Training Day and Taken.